This is a policy suggestion to pursue and to justify, understand, and actually campaign for Capitalism itself.
To fully achieve this we must first understand it. Firstly, Capitalism itself is not the system we are truly living in at the moment. We are actually living in Socialism.
Before we begin we need to define what these things are.
Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production.
Socialism is the public ownership of the means of production.
Strip away all the ideology and this means that Capitalism is the individualā¦ or, the alternate meaning of the word. Public ownership. Contradictory i know.
Public in this case refers to the taxpayer, simply put it refers to State ownership. Something Private has its own rules and we cannot interfere with where as the state can interfere with it.
For instance, Currency is Public owned, which means the state can manipulate the currency however they desire, while Bitcoin is a private owned currency and exists outside of all nation states. The same principle applies to Gold.
When you consider a Private Park, the private owners run, maintain, clean, and pay for anything associated with that park. They can open it to the general public or not. But it remains theirs.
Whereas a Public Park is run and maintained by the state, or, an arm of the state as it tends to be in the UK.
The NHS Is state owned, and thus Public owned.
So hopefully now we have a good solid definition as to what public vs private is. And also you can use this to define the political spectrum, since it is actually what it is.
Private is right wing
Public is left wing.
We know this because Socialism is always considered to be a left wing concept and capitalism is always considered to be a right wing concept.
In reality you might be thinking about many contradictions now. āFar Rightā surely means anarchism by this definition correct?
This is what Marxism has achieved by distorting definitions in various ways.
Nazism for instance is a National Socialist party, a racial focused socialism and national focused socialism. Nationalism is actually not related at all to the political spectrum.
In reality it is the collectivism of socialism applied to globalism that has pit itself against the nationalist capitalism.
This is how best to view the present day political spectrum.
I can go into far greater detail on this, breaking down and bringing the convoluted back down to earth.
But this is a policy platform. I wish to advocate for Free market principles.
A corporation is not an element of Capitalism. It is an element of Socialism. It is an entity propped up by the state utilizing price controls, regulation, beurocracy, and so on to let it survive.
aka. The bank of England.
We can throw these labels on everything.
Unions are more aligned with Italian fascism.
Corporations are more aligned with communism.
a singular large union with price controls (what we have now) is more aligned with nazism. yes the uk is literally more aligned with Nazism than any other country on the world right now. Hitler refers to it as Synchronization.
But this is over simplifying thingsā¦ while also incidently making other things convoluted.
In reality, economics has advanced so far that the methods of totalitarianism have evolved from all forms of socialism to create the modern day socialism which will eventually no doubt be granted its own name in the future by historians.
It still exists within the Capitalist structure, aiding in demonizing it. But while also ensuring absolute control over the means of production.
The IHT on Farms is an example of this.
We need to advocate for the profit motive.
Take Banks for instance.
Once upon a time, Banks were a Private entity. This means that if trust was shattered in a bank. They would be stripped of ALL wealth overnight as people withdrew and went elsewhere.
No bailouts.
Reputation was KING. As such, this ensured that bankers of the time were not going scrooge mcduck with our money, and instead had to work very hard to maintain their reputation. Or suffer the consequences.
Farmers in a free market capitalist nation would have their prices dictated by the market and not taxation. With far more room to breathe they would be able to grow, reinvest, and produce more, bringing prices RIGHT down, enabling them to compete with supermarkets.
There is No reality where supermarkets run freezers 24/7 to only sell a fraction of their fresh meat can compete with actual fresh market deliveries from a local area. No need for massive extensive supply chains.
Instead supermarkets would serve another purpose, gradually.
In a free market. Renting a stall starting with a pay check becomes viable. Then you can sell something you produce, for example I can use Photoshop and ai and I dabble in photography. Combine the 3, and I can create some really interesting pictures and potentially sell them.
Getting them framed on cards costs money, then selling costs tax on top atm. Remove the tax, and I can profit. If I have that tax, Iām charging a lot per item just to break even.
Store after store closes. I know pub owners who hope to earn 20k by the end of FOUR YEARS. In total net profit. An active family pub that barely breaks even daily.
The profit motive is not evil. Its neutral. Its an incentive.
It creates an economic Darwinism which allows the strong to survive. Allowing standards to climb ever upward, as efficiency and cost effectiveness is pursued in the simple desire to earn some coin.
I recommend people visit Bury Market to taste exactly how that looks, even now. A very successful market that somehow survives to this day. Though only the very best stalls remain, and many markets across the country have shrunk, or gone under.
Even Bury Market itself has shrunk despite its fame.
Now that my monologue is finished, what I would suggest requires more refinement and research of course. Iām not an expert in the inner workings of a nation. I work with Logic and theory.
People need to be taught, not about capitalism or ideology, but, real world interactions.
- Education: Supply and Demand. Supply & Demand, why is a table Ā£10 and no one wants it, yet the same table can be Ā£100 and everyone wants it.
- Education: The effects of Competition. Pursuing efficiency and cost effectiveness. I also recommend featuring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VhXeirC9Cs&t=4s
- Education: How does Tax effect the equation.
- Education: The knock on effect: VAT is not paid for once. It is paid for in layers. The same for any Profit based tax or transaction based tax. Retailer has to pay it too, effecting his profit margin, ensuring prices go up. Before you even buy the item. Then VAT is applied on top of that once againā¦ and corpo taxā¦ and god knows what else.
- Education: Inflation. I only have a vague understanding of this I need to research it a bit more, but I know that Inflation benefits those high up in the power structure, and then causes prices to go up for everyone else.
- Lets do this in Banks. Banks should be places of economic wisdom, as much as they are a place of Economic transactions. Of course I would hope to see them be Private in this scenario, but, if they were private we wouldnāt be in this mess. My suggestion is in pursuit of moving the Overton Window.
I can continue waffling on about this but i shall stop here for now, i think my general idea is expressed.
Generally speaking i wish to see people make the case for real capitalism, for the old world capitalism that saw the Peak of the british empire and rapid growth of america.
Methods of pursuing this are vast and too much to write about here all in one go.
